tultican
@tultican.bsky.social
Former ME and school teacher; Public ed champion, for healthcare as a human rite. Blog: http://tultican.com, Cross-post: @tultican@mastodon.social #EudcationMatters
San Diego Resistance Calendar. Protests, Teach-ins, Meetings and More @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance
San Diego Resistance Calendar. Protests, Teach-ins, Meetings and More…
Dozens of ways for people to get involved in the movement to save Democracy in the USA
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
San Diego Resistance Calendar. Protests, Teach-ins, Meetings and More @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections - Another post about Ohio voters supporting public schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/o... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections
Ohio’s public schools have been victimized repeatedly by its Republican legislatures and governors. Charter schools, online schools, and vouchers have ripped off taxpayers and siphoned funds …
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November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections - Another post about Ohio voters supporting public schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/o... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Josh Cowen Interviews Gina Hinojosa, Who Is Running for Governor of Texas - We all saw Gina in Columbus, Ohio at the NPE conference this year. She looks like a real fighter for the people. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/j... via @dianeravitch #HealthyPolitics
Josh Cowen Interviews Gina Hinojosa, Who Is Running for Governor of Texas
Josh Cowen is a prominent scholar of education policy. He spent 20 years as a voucher researcher and eventually concluded that vouchers are a failure. In every state that adopted and expanded vouch…
dianeravitch.net
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Josh Cowen Interviews Gina Hinojosa, Who Is Running for Governor of Texas - We all saw Gina in Columbus, Ohio at the NPE conference this year. She looks like a real fighter for the people. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/j... via @dianeravitch #HealthyPolitics
Nov. 6th Local Election Returns Show Ohio Voters Out of Sync with Legislature’s Attack on Public Schools - How long can Republicans work against the wishes of their constituents and remain in power? janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/n... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
Nov. 6th Local Election Returns Show Ohio Voters Out of Sync with Legislature’s Attack on Public Schools
The local election returns across Ohio on November 6th didn’t exactly square with the Ohio General Assembly’s public education policy priorities. The Culture Wars Ohio legislators conti…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nov. 6th Local Election Returns Show Ohio Voters Out of Sync with Legislature’s Attack on Public Schools - How long can Republicans work against the wishes of their constituents and remain in power? janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/n... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
Mindless wealth believes private business is always superior so billionaires support California’s charter schools despite all evidence. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026
By Thomas Ultican 11/11/2025 There was another major effort in Sacramento to reform charter school laws in order to head off a repeat of the A3 disaster. In May 2019, the San Diego District Attorne…
tultican.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Mindless wealth believes private business is always superior so billionaires support California’s charter schools despite all evidence. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers - It just won't stay dead no matter how badly it continues to fail. radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t... #EducationMatters
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers - It just won't stay dead no matter how badly it continues to fail. radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t... #EducationMatters
Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance! - A very thorough article covering the outrage of ICE in Chicago and the resilience of it residence. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance
Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance!
A modern day reflection of that pride in place is the omnipresent and fierce opposition by regular folks of the President’s fear agenda.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance! - A very thorough article covering the outrage of ICE in Chicago and the resilience of it residence. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance
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John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the "Mississippi Miracle" by Retaining 3rd Graders - Politicians who don't know spit about education keep creating harm. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/o... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the “Mississippi Miracle” by Retaining 3rd Graders
Oklahoma legislators are debating whether to follow the lead of Mississippi by adopting a phonics-based reading curriculum and requiring the retention of 3rd graders who can’t pass the readin…
dianeravitch.net
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the "Mississippi Miracle" by Retaining 3rd Graders - Politicians who don't know spit about education keep creating harm. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/o... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Mary Trump: Her Uncle on Veterans Day - Her uncle is the president. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/m... via @dianeravitch #Veterans
Mary Trump: Her Uncle on Veterans Day
Mary Trump is the daughter of Donald Trump’s older brother Fred Trump Jr. Mary is a trained psychologist. If you haven’t read her first book about Donald and his dysfunctional family, y…
dianeravitch.net
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mary Trump: Her Uncle on Veterans Day - Her uncle is the president. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/m... via @dianeravitch #Veterans
Billionaires don’t care that privatization is harming public education. They want unregulated charter schools in California. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026
By Thomas Ultican 11/11/2025 There was another major effort in Sacramento to reform charter school laws in order to head off a repeat of the A3 disaster. In May 2019, the San Diego District Attorne…
tultican.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Billionaires don’t care that privatization is harming public education. They want unregulated charter schools in California. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
Andy Spears reports from Tennessee that another dark money group is aiming to gut public education in the state. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
Andy Spears: Consulting Firm with Deep GOP Ties Helps Launch Effort to Fully Privatize Tennessee Schools - Network For Public Education
Andy Spears reports from Tennessee that another dark money group is aiming to gut public education in the state. I wrote yesterday about a new issue advocacy group in Tennessee and its stated goal to ...
networkforpubliceducation.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Andy Spears reports from Tennessee that another dark money group is aiming to gut public education in the state. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
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Billionaire dollars have created and driven the development of charter schools in California. It makes no sense but they don’t care. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026
By Thomas Ultican 11/11/2025 There was another major effort in Sacramento to reform charter school laws in order to head off another A3 disaster. In May 2019, the San Diego District Attorney charge…
tultican.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Billionaire dollars have created and driven the development of charter schools in California. It makes no sense but they don’t care. tultican.com/2025/11/11/c... #Privatization
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools - A Hoax! The program was sold as a way to save low-income children from low-performing schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools
Garry Rayno of InDepth NH reports on the status of the New Hampshire voucher program, called Education Freedom Accounts. The program is growing beyond the budgeted amount, and the number of student…
dianeravitch.net
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools - A Hoax! The program was sold as a way to save low-income children from low-performing schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Turn the Volume Up!: Savvy Economic Populism is the Answer to What Ails Us - 7 cowardly Democrats and one Independent reacted to last week's victory by capitulating. Talk about stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Turn the Volume Up!: Savvy Economic Populism is the Answer to What Ails Us
“I don’t think our party needs to have one face, our country doesn’t have one face…We all understand the assignment." --AOC
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November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Turn the Volume Up!: Savvy Economic Populism is the Answer to What Ails Us - 7 cowardly Democrats and one Independent reacted to last week's victory by capitulating. Talk about stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Colorado: Voters Like Their Public Schools - In that vain, they should support Weiser over Bennett for their next governor. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/c... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Colorado: Voters Like Their Public Schools
Paula Noonan of Colorado Capitol Watch reported on a nearly statewide sweep of school board elections by pro-public school parents. This vote of confidence in public schools is even more remarkable…
dianeravitch.net
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Colorado: Voters Like Their Public Schools - In that vain, they should support Weiser over Bennett for their next governor. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/c... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Andy Spears: New Group in Tennessee Seeks to Eliminate Public Schools - Are people in Tennessee dense? They are the example for the weakness of charter schools and vouchers have been a menace to learning. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/a... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Andy Spears: New Group in Tennessee Seeks to Eliminate Public Schools
Andy Spears is a veteran education journalist with a Ph.D. in education policy and a specialization in school finance. He lives in Nashville, but covers the national scene. Spears writes: In this p…
dianeravitch.net
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Andy Spears: New Group in Tennessee Seeks to Eliminate Public Schools - Are people in Tennessee dense? They are the example for the weakness of charter schools and vouchers have been a menace to learning. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/a... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
As an Institution, Public Education Is the Very Definition of Our Society's Civic Vision - This is an important and profound article. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
As an Institution, Public Education Is the Very Definition of Our Society’s Civic Vision
Colin Woodard is the director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University and author of a new book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America. In a recent NY Times colum…
janresseger.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
As an Institution, Public Education Is the Very Definition of Our Society's Civic Vision - This is an important and profound article. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
Jan Resseger looks at the history of government attempts to suppress the teaching of honest history. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Jan Resseger: State and Federal Governments Keep Attacking the Teaching of Honest History - Network For Public Education
Jan Resseger looks at the history of government attempts to suppress the teaching of honest history. Reposted with permission. When I read Dee Brown’s 1970 book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I learn...
networkforpubliceducation.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Jan Resseger looks at the history of government attempts to suppress the teaching of honest history. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Remembering Why There's a Special Education Law - Our best hope to save special education is for a new President who makes education, public schools, and special education a priority. nancyebailey.com/2025/10/19/r... #EducationMatters
Remembering Why There’s a Special Education Law - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Donald Trump is destroying programs that help Democratic and Republican kids, including special education. He seems not to understand why laws exist to protect students. Linda McMahon is eliminating t...
nancyebailey.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Remembering Why There's a Special Education Law - Our best hope to save special education is for a new President who makes education, public schools, and special education a priority. nancyebailey.com/2025/10/19/r... #EducationMatters
Remembering Why There's a Special Education Law - Our best hope to save special education is for a new President who makes education, public schools, and special education a priority. nancyebailey.com/2025/10/19/r... #EducationMatters
Remembering Why There’s a Special Education Law - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Donald Trump is destroying programs that help Democratic and Republican kids, including special education. He seems not to understand why laws exist to protect students. Linda McMahon is eliminating t...
nancyebailey.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Remembering Why There's a Special Education Law - Our best hope to save special education is for a new President who makes education, public schools, and special education a priority. nancyebailey.com/2025/10/19/r... #EducationMatters
Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters - It was “people over money.” dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/c... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters
The big money promoting privatization in Denver tried to capture the Denver school board, but was defeated by candidates endorsed by the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. Chalkbeat Colorado re…
dianeravitch.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters - It was “people over money.” dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/c... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Norman Rockwell Family Protests Trump's Misuse of His Work to Promote Racist Agenda - Our xenophobic administration does all it can to further divide the nation. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/n... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Norman Rockwell Family Protests Trump’s Misuse of His Work to Promote Racist Agenda
Descendants of the celebrated painter Norman Rockwell wrote an article in USA Today protesting the Trump administration’s selective use of his work to portray an all-white America. The Depart…
dianeravitch.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Norman Rockwell Family Protests Trump's Misuse of His Work to Promote Racist Agenda - Our xenophobic administration does all it can to further divide the nation. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/n... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Nancy Bailey looks at what the Science of Reading fans propose for babies. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Reading
Nancy Bailey: The So-Called Science of Reading’s New Focus on Babies - Network For Public Education
Nancy Bailey looks at what the Science of Reading fans propose for babies. Really. Reposted with permission. At the Thomas B. Fordham Wonk-a-Thon, where they ask what should happen next, Elliot Regen...
networkforpubliceducation.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Nancy Bailey looks at what the Science of Reading fans propose for babies. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Reading